As per WQR 2016, a key technology change associated with digital strategies is cloud adoption. Cloud-based provisioning and services have been slow to catch on within the utilities industry for the past few years, but they catching up the momentum in recent years. Along with digital, the utilities industries will focus on cyber security too.
On the operations side, forecasting comes to the forefront even more than anything from the past 15 years. The executives in utilities are trying to manage their grids, tying to figure out how to handle data, to figure out how to position the need for the future. Today, most of the industries are relying significantly on data-driven decisions. The utility industry is in need of analyzing demand forecast programs. They are looking for feasible choices, looking for optimum solution for the need, which is going to give them the best information and solution. Many of the large utilities are still running on legacy...